Did you know...? On June 7, 1926, the master architect Antoni Gaudí and was hit by a tram. The sad accident occurred on the Gran Via in the Catalan Courts, specifically between Girona and Bailen street, on his way to the Church of San Felipe Neri, which is located in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, —not far from Plaza Catalunya and Ramblas—, where I used to go to pray every day.

Gaudí, 74 years old at the time and that was in the prime of his career, died three days after the fateful accident, June 10, 1926. However, the great architect was buried on June 12 in the Chapel of Our Lady of Carmen, which lies in the crypt of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, his masterpiece, even in its last phase of construction at present., Antoni Gaudí